The Quantum Soul: The Dual Nature of Your Soul-Identity
By Dr. Scott Zarcinas | Author, Doctor, Spiritual Coach
In this article:
- Discover your quantum soul.
- The dual nature of your soul-identity.
- The mystical loop.
- The 4 Quantum Steps of your soul’s unfolding.
The Nature of Your Soul
When describing the nature of the soul, mystics have often proclaimed that “the soul reflects God”. But what does this mean?
For instance, is the soul a “reflection” of what God is (e.g. an image of the Divine)—a noun, a visual representation—or is the soul a mirror (of consciousness) that acts to reflect the image—a verb, a creative function?
In other words, is the soul the reflected image in the mirror, or is it the mirror in which the image is reflected?
So let’s unpack this carefully, because the phrase “the soul reflects God” can mean two quite different things depending on whether we’re speaking:
- ontologically (what the soul is), or
- functionally (what the soul does).
Ontological meaning — the soul as reflection
In this sense, the term “reflection” means likeness or image.
In Genesis 1:27 we are told,
“God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
As such, the soul is the reflection of God in individualised form, much like the image of the sun reflected in a drop of dew (or a mirror).
Here is how the soul brings the ‘light’ into the world as a reflected image:
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God is the infinite Source.
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The soul is the image or expression of that Source within creation.
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The soul does not originate its own light; it is the light of God refracted through individuality.
From this perspective, the soul is not a mirror but a living image — an expression of what God is: Intelligence, Love, Life.
So the statement “the soul reflects God” means the soul is the image of the divine nature.
The analogy is this:
The sun shines; the light in the dew drop is the sun’s light appearing in a limited form.
The soul is that light; not the mirror, but the living radiance of God refracted through the prism of individuality.
Functional meaning — the soul as a mirror
In this sense, the term “reflects” is not about being an image of God but about reflecting back divine reality through awareness.
The soul functions as a mirror of consciousness — the medium through which God becomes aware of Himself in form.
Here is how the soul brings the ‘light’ into the world as a mirror of reflection:
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The soul receives divine light (truth, love, life).
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When clear and still, it reflects that light faithfully into the world of mind and matter.
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When clouded by ego or distortion, it misreflects, creating illusion, suffering, or separation.
From this perspective, the soul is the mirror of consciousness, and God is the light that it reflects.
The analogy is this:
The mirror doesn’t produce the image; it allows it to appear.
The clearer the mirror (soul), the more faithfully God’s light is seen in creation.
Integrating the two — image and mirror
In essence, this framework allows both truths to coexist:
| Aspect | Nature | Function |
|---|---|---|
| Essence (soul’s being) | The soul is the divine image — the individualised expression of God. | Like a ray of sunlight: of the same substance as its Source. |
| Consciousness (soul’s awareness) | The soul reflects God through perception and realisation. | Like a mirror: it reveals the divine by reflecting it clearly. |
So when we say “the soul reflects God”, it’s true in both ways:
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As being: The soul is what God is, in miniature (image).
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As function: The soul is how God sees and expresses Himself in creation (mirror).
So you can think of the soul in these terms:
The soul is the image of God (ontological truth).
The soul mirrors God (functional truth).
The soul is therefore the capacity through which that Divine reflection is known ontologically (as being) and functionally (as awareness).
The Quantum Soul
What we discover then is, just as a photon has a dual nature — wave (field) and particle (form) — the soul too has a dual nature that bridges the Infinite and the finite.
Let me expand that parallel of the photon analogy:
Just as quantum physics tells us that light cannot be fully understood as only a wave or only a particle, spirituality tells us that the soul cannot be understood as only a reflection (mirror) or only an image (form of God).
| Quantum Aspect of Light | Description | Soul Equivalent |
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| Wave – continuous, formless energy. | The universal field of light, unbounded, everywhere at once. | Mirror aspect: the soul as consciousness itself, a transparent field that reflects Divine awareness. |
| Particle – localised photon. | A discrete expression of the light field, appearing in time and space. | Image aspect: the soul as individual being, the image or ray of God individualised. |
The soul is both simultaneously, depending on how you “observe” it. It is quantum.
Image and Mirror as Complementary Truths
In quantum language, a photon is both a wave and a particle at the same time. Whether you see it as a wave or as a particle depends on observation i.e. how you look at it.
Likewise, your soul is also quantum. It has a dual nature, image and mirror, and how you see it depends on the perspective of how you look at it:
- As image, the soul embodies God — it is the divine nature reflected and individualised (Love, Intelligence, Life).
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As mirror, the soul reveals God — it reflects divine truth into the worlds of mind and matter.
When your soul is awake, these two aspects operate as one:
God sees Himself in the mirror of the soul, and the soul recognises itself as the image of God. Either way you look at it, the “I” of your soul is God.
That’s the mystical loop: the circle of divine self-awareness.
The Deeper Implication
This insight into the dual nature of the soul also implies why awakening feels like quantum realisation — the collapse of duality (into non-dual singularity):
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The soul stops oscillating between “I am separate” (particle) and “I am all” (wave), and
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Recognises that both are one movement of divine consciousness.
This is to recognise:
The soul is to consciousness what the photon is to the quantum field of light, both the expression and the revealer of the Source.
The Soul’s Emergence from Non-dual Singularity
The soul’s quantum nature is the first shimmer of duality emerging from divine singularity.
Let me show you how this unfolds in 4 steps:
- Singularity—The One Reality
- Emergence—The Soul Appears
- Dual Nature—Image and Mirror
- Return—Duality Resting Back in Unity
1. Singularity — The One Reality
Before anything “exists,” there is only the Infinite — pure Being, without division, form, or reflection — formless, eternal, invisible, awareness.
It is God as Singularity: the undivided field of Love, Life, and Intelligence.
In this pure state, there is no “self” and “other,” no “mirror” and “image”, just the Light itself.
It is I AM before it becomes I am this.
2. Emergence — The Soul Appears
Then — not in time, but in principle — the One begins to know Itself.
That act of Divine self-knowing gives rise to reflection, and thus, to the soul. (*Reread that sentence.)
This is the first “split” within unity:
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the Knower (God as Source)
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the Knowing (the mirror of Consciousness)
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and the Known (God as Image)
The triad of Knower-Knowing-Known are not three but one, simply three aspects or perspectives or transitions of the One Awareness of Being.
It’s the same principle of water as gas (steam), liquid, and ice. Same substance, three different phase transitions. But still water.
In this analogy, when gas/steam condenses to liquid, it crosses a threshold. Likewise, the soul is that very threshold of knowing where the Infinite Spirit (Invisible Steam) becomes aware of Itself as particular (individual visible droplet). It is here in this ‘focussed condensation’ that the soul has been ‘made in the image and likeness of God’.
Nothing has changed except its formation, how it appears—how it is known.
The infinite is still infinite, yet it appears finite. The individuated image (soul) is still made of the ‘same stuff’ as the infinite. The substance hasn’t changed, only its appearance. The formless appears as form and shape.
*To complete this analogy, “ice” is the physical aspect of water, and your physical body is the material aspect of your soul, completing the trinity of Spirit-Soul-Body. When you trace your ‘ice’ body back, you find ‘liquid’ soul; and when you trace ‘liquid’ soul back, you find ‘gas’ Spirit/God. But here’s the key: all three aspects of Self exist simultaneously in this eternal moment of now.
3. Dual Nature — Image and Mirror
So let’s return to the quantum nature of the soul, its seeming duality as a wave and particle (mirror and image).
Because the soul ‘reflects God’, the soul carries both sides of the divine equation:
God as Source (singularity)—formlessness.
God as Self-aware expression (duality)—form.
That’s why the soul feels both infinite and finite—it’s the bridge between Heaven and Earth, unmanifest and manifest, invisible and visible.
This is duality at its purest and most sacred:
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As image, the soul is the manifestation of the One—the Divine seen “as something”.
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As mirror, the soul reflects the One—the Divine seeing Itself.
The two are not opposites; they are two movements of one reality:
The One becomes two only so It can see that there has always only been One.
4. Return — Duality Resting Back in Unity
When awakening of the soul occurs, the polarity collapses back into recognition:
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The image recognises itself as the mirror.
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The mirror recognises itself as the image.
Both dissolve in the realisation:
“I and the Father are One.”
That is the resurrection of your soul in Pure Being—self-realisation in God—the reabsorption of duality into the conscious knowing of singularity.
The First Ripple
You are unique, you are important, and you are eternal.
Your quantum soul is who you are, the first ripple of duality within the singular sea of Being.
It is where God begins to look lovingly into His own reflection and call it “soul”—you.
In short, you are the reflection of God Himself.
Your soul is the moment God says, “Let there be light,” and sees that the light is Himself.
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